NEW THEATRE INSTITUTE OF LATVIA

contemporary performing arts in Latvia and abroad

Pasts, presents and futures of forests in anthropogenic soils and patches of land. On February 9th together with artist Nana Francisca Schottländer we hosted the forth Forest School session from ‘Nordhavn tip’: a previous land reclamation project in the Copenhagen Harbour surrounded by industrial areas, construction sites and ship terminals. All of Copenhagen has grown through land reclamation and the filling is still ongoing. In and with this land and those, who live here, we will look back at what was before, meet what is now and speculate about the future of life in places like this.

Watch the forth session of the Forest School here:

To join the next sessions, use this link: ej.uz/mezaskola

Nana Francisca Schottländer is a Copenhagen based artist working research-based with immersive, relational creation through encounters and exchanges with more-than-human entities and phenomena. Central to her work is the use of the body as a tool for transforming philosophical, theoretical and scientific concepts into embodied experience. In recent years she is focusing on reciprocal and caring encounters with beings, areas and materials formed by human intervention, extraction and consumption.

Forest school’s creators:
Rebecca Birch (NO) is an artist working with entanglements of people and their local landscapes, her long-term research project Lichen Covered Stick traced histories of human-lichen encounters. She is currently Visiting Scholar at Oslo School of Environmental Humanities.
Bek Berger (LV) is an artist and the artistic director of the New Theatre Institute of Latvia. In her personal practice she has been working across German, Italian and Latvian forests and peatlands researching mechanisms to create art for non-humans.
Daniel Peltz (SE) is an artist, co-founder of Rejmyre Art Lab and Professor of Site and Situation
Specific Practices at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.
Sissi Westerberg (SE) is an artist, co-founder of Rejmyre Art Lab and Senior Lecturer at Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design in Sweden

The event is implemented by the project “ACT: Art, Climate, Transition”. Supported by the EU program “Creative Europe” and the Nordic-Baltic mobility program “Culture”.

“ACT: Art. Climate. Transition” is co-financed by the EU’s programme “Creative Europe”. ACT is a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, mass extinction and growing inequalities we join our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act. ACT is a project initiated by 10 cultural operators from 10 European countries, working in the field of performing and visual arts. More about the project read at artclimatetransition.eu.

  

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